Using this interactive map, republished by the CUNY Graduate Center from a 1943 “NYC Market Analysis” newspaper feature, we can see snapshots of what life used to be like back in the day. The roads ...

A new website maps Depression-era tax photos of every building in the city, making it easier for researchers and history buffs to navigate several hundred thousand snapshots of buildings from 1940s ...

Welcome to our new Weekly Map series, where we will highlight quirky urban maps, both vintage and present. Steven Romalewski, director of City University of New York’s Urban Mapping Service, told us ...

In 2018, New York City Municipal Archives finished digitizing its long-awaited 1940 tax photographs collection, a cache of over 700,000 images of every tax lot in each of the five boroughs taken ...

NEW YORK -- Americans are in for a cyber-surprise on Wednesday: They'll be able to plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of New Yorkers -- from Joe ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Box for a set of souvenir film strips ...

Robert H. Jackson was a Democrat from New York. That’s the first thing to know. He also didn’t have a law degree, which may explain why he understood the law so well. If you want to better understand ...

Long before the days of iPhone Photo Walks, the future sites of New York City’s Apple Stores were captured on film as part of a citywide project. Eighty years later, the photos offer unique insight ...

Lena Horne sings at the Daily News’ Harvest Moon Ball at Madison Square Garden. The Brooklyn-born singer (1917) made her singing debut at 16 in Harlem’s famous Cotton Club. A star of MGM musicals in ...

It’s no Glass House, but a rare and long-forgotten Philip Johnson-designed home now on the market has a bit more teeth to it—at least in name. Outside, Parker and Ha spruced up the facade with Cypress ...

New York World's Fair was a comic published by DC Comics in 1939 and 1940 at the World's Fair in New York for 15 cents. The most popular DC characters at the time had stories inside- Batman and Robin, ...